> Keep on making Pharo, IMHO it's the best thing that happened to squeak since
> years - though I was very septic at the beginning
> Last time I made a small demo to 2 of my collegues they didn't laugh - scouic
> - and were even impressed by smalltalk concepts
Thanks *a lot* alain.
we **know** what you think. We were teaching Smalltalk to students and look
like idiots
during years. I should be one of the person that demoed a *lot* smalltalk and
got burned.
I could impose Smalltalk in some places because of my strong large cv.
As we already said we invested a lot in Squeak (I wrote three books = 4 years
to write one) and a lot of things.
For my job people were laughing: oh you are doing Smalltalk, little smile = you
are an idiot while I'm the french which published the most in OOPSLA but this
did not count..... and this was a problem for me to get a
job. I can continue the long list like that. So doing pharo was not an easy
decision: it was pharo or ruby or python or lua.
I hope that we did not make the wrong choice - I'm not joking.
Now for pharo we have a vision:
We want a system to invent the next one and that people can make a
living with it.
- bootstrappable
- clean lean robust
- (ideally) good interface with C
- (ideally) a lovely fast readable documentd extensible VM
- good infrastructure
- meta model for code
- browser for remote/crosscompilation/default browsing
- new compiler
- first class instance variable
- new network layer
- new graphics
- new module system
At the end it may not be Smalltalk but it will be the same spirit. I think that
we are slowly getting to the point
where we will start to invent new things instead of just removing old
experiences.
Stef
